OMG THE SCORE!!!!


I love it sooo much!!!!!!! its so perfect and haunting! i dont care what anyone says, i know it was an hour and half of dialogue..... but god damn what dialogue it was... love watching great actors act off of each other////perfection///cat///n////mouse///

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I loved the score. Patrick Doyle can be hit and miss, but when he hits, it's a beauty. You really need to listen to it on the CD: there's a lot of good stuff on it that the movie didn't use.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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The score was exactly what the movie deserved. In the original Sleuth, there was hardly any music during the film itself, (none, during the verbal jousting, so far as I can remember,) since the performances and the dialogue were strong enough to let the viewer know what they ought to be thinking and feeling, without the composer injecting his stuff in at every turn to clue us in. The score that played over the opening credits in the original film had a fun, peppy feel, with a slight sinister edge; it let the audience know that they were in for a fun little ride, and a convoluted story.

The stuff that plays over the opening credits in this "remake" is mournful by comparison, (and even without comparison.). It has the quality of a dirge. I remember thinking, (and perhaps even saying out loud,) "This is music for Laurence Olivier to roll over in his grave by.").

And damn if I wasn't right.

Terence

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In the original Sleuth, there was hardly any music during the film itself, (none, during the verbal jousting, so far as I can remember,) since the performances and the dialogue were strong enough to let the viewer know what they ought to be thinking and feeling, without the composer injecting his stuff in at every turn to clue us in.


There is hardly any music in Branagh's movie too; the performances and dialogue were strong enough to keep me engaged throughout the movie. Although I loved Doyle's score, it has to be listened in its entirety to be fully appreciated because a lot of good stuff is not in the movie.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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@ Eumenides 0 -- Where can I get the soundtrack CD? I love the score. Absolutely mesmerizing and a perfect foil/complement to the two protagonists. I just can't find it at the usual shops. Thanks.

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Brideshead,
Here's one place on line
http://entertainment.circuitcity.com/Music/Album.aspx?prodid=VAR066854 .2&si=ccity-prod&store=Music


You're supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for God's sake!

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Hey thanks Sheryl, but they're a US chain. No Canadian outlet. Maybe there's an online store where I can buy it and download the whole thing? I'm really bad at this downloading stuff.

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Brideshead,

Try here: http://www.amazon.ca/Sleuth-Patrick-Doyle/dp/B000VS6P0U/ref=sr_1_1?ie= UTF8&s=music&qid=1209239360&sr=1-1
It's the Canadian Amazon site, I hope that helps.

Tinky

Franklin Don't talk to me as if I were a child! Warm Springs, 2005

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Oh wow thanks very much tincker belle. I will def check it out.

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Howdy-doody, there. ::-/

I've not posted for awhile; I've been busy with other stuff... But I like this board, and I wanted to resurrect this moribund thread. I, too, respect the score for this movie, but for different reasons than the OP had in mind. The score for the original, classic, and only legitimate "Sleuth" was happy, peppy... Grabbed us at the outset and sucked us right in. It let us know right off the bat that the next 90 minutes or so would be like a dose of adderall with two cups of espresso; and that we'd need both, and something more, to even half-ass keep up with the proceedings.

By contrast, the remake has an opening theme that comes off like a dirge. It's designed to make the viewer, and listener, want to weep. And I did. I wept buckets.

I wept over the loss of Laurence Olivier. I wept over Michael Caine, (a brilliant actor, and a gift from God, who was eaten by the shark in "Jaws: The Revenge," without even realizing it, and without the character he portrayed having to suffer a similar fate;) I wept because I paid 3 clams, and time I could've spent having a colonoscopy and getting diagnosed with cancer, for the rental. I wept because I watched the thing instead of wanking my crank over jpegs of Ernest Borgnine. I wept because sick dogs, in their wisdom, crawl under porches and die, while supporters of rotten, almost-straight-to-dvd celluloid, upload vomit like I prefer this version too- mainly because of the better direction, and the lack of the light comedic tone the st took. This was more serious, superb.

God, almighty. I kind of hope the world gets struck by a comet tonight. Maybe I'm just drunk. >:-[

Terence

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Beautiful!
I loved the movie too, that's the magic of a wonderful script, but I came here only to have a look for more info about the music.
Patrick Doyle.
Sounds Irish. I'm Irish. But I would have liked anyway.
I'll look for it.

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I love the score as well! I immediately got the CD after seeing the movie.

I'm always this nervous, you're just closer, you can see better. ~ Jeff Murdock

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The recurring melody rips off the base line in Beethoven's Allegretto. Listen to the Allegretto if you don't know it, because it's truly haunting and beautiful -- a masterpiece.

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